• Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies from the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru (degree awarded by University of Mysore)
• Master of Philosophy in History from the University of Hyderabad
• Master of Arts in History from the University of Hyderabad Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History from Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata (degree awarded by University of Calcutta)

• Festival Studies
• Indian Ocean History
• Culture studies
• Theatre Studies

My current practice at SMI draws from my experience of being a theatre maker, where I use theatre as a learning tool to have a vivid understanding of a concept, which is researched, explored and then summarised to have a wholistic perception and also to inspect on using that concept to represent its ideas creatively. In that regard, I ensure to rely on my research skills which I have learnt as a social scientist, where students would themselves conduct both quantitative and qualitative research and work with data in creatively showcasing their work.

Teaching Contextual Enquiry for Foundation Students, General Studies, Term Paper and the Creative Writing Programme.

• Awards Best Comedy Actress at the 67th Annual All India Drama and Dance Competition in Shimla, 2022.
• Professor Sudhir Ranjan Das Memorial Prize, jointly with Dr Sanjay Subodh, for being “adjudged the author of the best paper among those on Archaeology submitted at the 70th annual session of the Indian History Congress” in 2011.
• Select Performances Silvatein, written in English and translated into Hindi by Puneet Gupta.
• The first play, originally written in Bangla, titled Dharmotthānam adapted into a podcast by [Sangeet Natak Akademi Puraskar winner] Sunil Shanbag and Sapan Saran’s Studio Tamaasha for its series, New Writing Podcast, 2020.
• (Hindi) Acted in Bangalore Little Theatre’s adaptation of The Tales of Tenali Rama by Bangalore Times for its digital series, #StorytellingSessionsWithBangaloreTimes, 2020.
• (English) Directed Bangalore Little Theatre’s all-women cast-and-crew production of Foursight Theatre’s Six Dead Queens and an Inflatable Henry!, which had ten well-attended shows in Bengaluru and was invited to The Red Curtain’s 50th Year Theatre Festival in Kolkata, 2019.
• (English) Performed at the 5th Kenya International Theatre Festival in Nairobi as an actor in Theatre for Change’s production of When the Rainbow is Enough, 2019.
• (English) Select Publications “Once There Was a Syncretic Deity.” Seminar 750. February 2022. https://www.india-seminar.com/. “Localising Global Faiths: The Heterodox Pantheon of the Sundarbans.”
• Asian Review of World Histories 5, no. 1 (2017): 141-57. https://brill.com/view/journals/arwh/5/1/article-p141_7.xml. (indexed by SCOPUS and Web of Science)
• “A Littoral Space: Making a Case for the Southern Deltaic Region of Bengal.”
• In Living with Water: Peoples, Lives, and Livelihoods in Asia and Beyond, edited by Rila Mukherjee, Issues in History, 55-65. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2016.
• “Ma Bonbibi, Mother to Humans and Tigers.”
• People’s Archive of Rural India, April 16, 2016. https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/ma-bonbibi-mother-to-humans-and-tigers.